5 Podcasts To Keep You Inspired During This Crisis

We want to help our community keep strong, healthy, positive and connected during this challenging time. Check out the TRIBE Stronger Every Day Challenge (with prizes available for those that take part)! We want to help you come out of this period of isolation feeling inspired and ready to achieve your goals or take on a new challenge. Check out this list of awesome podcasts for some inspiration! If you're in the UK and able to go outside for one form of exercise per day, we recommend listening to one of these on your next run or walk.

1. THE PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE SHOW
Brad Beer interviews Tom Evans, Elite Ultra Trail Runner. Tom, a former British Army Captain, made an incredible debut on the Ultra Trail Running scene when he came 3rd in 2017 in the gruelling 251km Marathon des Sables (which he entered after a bet in the pub)! Listen to the podcast to hear about his highs, lows and learning from his career so far. Check it out here!

2. RICH ROLL INTERVIEWS JOHN MCAVOY
From armed robbery to professional athlete. Listen to this podcast to hear the inspirational story of how John transformed his life through sport. John broke a number of indoor rowing records while in prison. Upon parole, he began forging a new life as a professional endurance athlete. Today, John is the world’s only Nike sponsored Ironman athlete, and an advocate for the inherent power we all possess to course correct the trajectory of one’s life, no matter how dire the circumstances. Listen here!

3. TOUGH GIRL PODCAST: SARAH OUTEN
Adventures by Land + Sea. In Nov 2015 Sarah completed her London2London:Via the World expedition, which was a mammoth attempt to row, cycle and kayak 25,000 miles around the Northern Hemisphere. An inspirational journey, which took 4.5 years and definitely didn’t go as planned. Check it out here!

4. THE MORNING SHAKEOUT PODCAST
An interview with Hillary Allen (an incredibly inspiring and positive ultra-marathon runner). Hillary has an amazing story about survival - she fell 150ft off the side of a mountain while racing in Norway and was very lucky to survive. In this interview she talks about her challenging comeback and how the running community around her inspired her to dig deep and build up the strength she had lost. Listen here!

5. FURTHER. FASTER. PODCAST: Jasmin Paris
This podcast delves into why, and how, ultra athletes, mountaineers and explorers do what they do. This Special episode is with Jasmin Paris, the overall winner of the 2019 Montane Spine Race (268 miles across the Pennine Way, over some of the most uncompromising landscape in Britain...in Winter)! She smashed the previous course record by an incredible 12 hours, and as a recent mother was expressing milk at the checkpoints. Click here to get inspired!

We hope that these help to give you some inspiration during this challenging time!